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CIVICUS urges EU not to overlook rights violations in Turkey
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CIVICUS urges Chad authorities to release activists ahead of elections
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CIVICUS and partners condemn arrest of Bahraini human rights defender Zainab Al-Khawaja
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CIVICUS makes several interventions at the UN Human Rights Council’s 31st session
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CIVICUS op-ed on ‘why South Africa must not lose plot on civil society’
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ALGERIA: Activist Fined for Facebook post that “defamed” president
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BANGLADESH: “Free-thinking” professor hacked to death
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Student activist fighting for secularisation of social media murdered with machete
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Editor of country’s only LGBTI magazine killed
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81-year old author arrested on allegations of conspiring to kill prime minister’s son
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BRAZIL: Indigenous community activist prevented from giving evidence on killings, placed under house arrest
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CAMBODIA: Human rights defenders judicially harassed on ‘bribery’ charges
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CHAD: CSOs planned march against President Idriss Derby banned ahead of elections
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CHINA: Controversial law controls on foreign NGOs passed
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Protestor sentenced to four years imprisonment for participating in 2014 pro-democracy protests
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Four years prison sentence for citizen journalist charged with “picking quarrels”
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COTE D’ IVOIRE: Book authored by political opponent banned by government
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DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Priest fighting mining and documenting human rights abuses assassinated
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EGYPT: Almost 400 teargassed and arrested in April peaceful protests
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UN special rapporteur urges end of crackdown on civil society
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GAMBIA: Opposition leader dies in suspicious circumstances in detention after protest
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Journalist detained for nine months disappears from police custody
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GERMANY: Prosecutors allowed to prosecute satirist who wrote offensive poem on Turkish president
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GHANA: Radio journalist and panellists attacked on air during live political discussion
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GREECE: Judicial harassment and crackdown on NGOs assisting migrants
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HONDURAS: Attempted killing of LGBTI activists
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INDIA: Journalist exposing human rights violations denied bail, held in judicial custody
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IRAQ: Al Jazeera news banned from operating for violating “rules and regulations”
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JORDAN: Human rights defender denied entry for civil society consultative meeting
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KYRGYZSTAN: United Nations calls for release of human rights defender who is serving life sentence
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Restrictive NGO Bill goes through parliament’s second reading
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KUWAIT: Campaigner of stateless persons arrested during solidarity march with pro-democracy activist
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MALAWI: 400 unregistered CSOs face May 31 deadline of deregistration
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MALAYSIA: Human rights lawyer sentenced to eight months for making seditious speech
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NEPAL: Government quizzes human rights commission for statement made at UN
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Human rights defender arrested for refusing to cooperate in corruption case against him
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OMAN: Health of detained human rights activist deteriorates
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PAKISTAN: Court sentences accused to life for 2013 murder of journalist
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RWANDA: Human rights defender receives telephonic threats asking him to leave the country
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SUDAN: University student shot and killed in protest to present electoral candidates
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SYRIA: Human rights defender arrested and detained on way to Lebanon for human rights workshop
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THAILAND: Former minister arrested for publicly opposing draft Constitution
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Attempted killing of lands rights activist
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Five years on, CSOs call for release of activist imprisoned for five years for insulting the king
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TURKEY: Academics face terrorism charges for reading out joint press statement
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Eight months after enforced disappearance, human rights defender appears in court
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VIETNAM: Website manager suffers physical assault for religious activism
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ZIMBABWE: Actor arrested for staging theatre play at parliament on missing diamond revenue
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Brother of missing activist assaulted, arrested for staging one-man protest on Independence Day
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Article 19: Defending Freedom of Expression and Information 2015 Annual Report

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CIVICUS: ‘Southern philanthropy, social justice and human rights: discussion paper’

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Gulf Centre for Human Rights: Saudi Arabia: Silenced voices of human rights defenders and laws used to persecute them

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Freedom House: Freedom of the press 2016

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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Criminalisation of human rights defenders

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AZERBAIJAN: Travel ban lifted on human rights defenders
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MYANMAR: Scores of political prisoners released
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Vice-President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, Penelope Faulkner, speaks to CIVICUS about the challenges faced by civil society in the country.
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CIVICUS speaks to Armando Chaguaceda Noriega, a Cuban political scientist and historian who specialises in the study of civil society who says despite the positive reforms, Cuban civil society still has a long way to go.
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CIVICUS speaks to Carlos A Guevara who coordinates the information system for Somos Defensores (We Are Defenders), a non-governmental protection program for human rights defenders in Colombia.
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CIVICUS speaks to Rolando B�, the director of the Federation of Non-Governmental Organisations for the Development of Honduras on the security situation for local human rights defenders and what can be done to improve the environment NGOs operate in.
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Editors: Mandeep Tiwana | Teldah Mawarire

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DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this bulletin are a reflection of those contained in the original reports to which they are linked here, and are not necessarily those of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.